ACCORDING to an old joke, a university is a group of anarchists joined together by a central heating system. I might be tempted, given the events of…
ACCORDING to an old joke, a university is a group of anarchists joined together by a central heating system. I might be tempted, given the events of recent times, to call a political party something similar, except without the warmth.
Fergus is also a formidable politician, taking the Inverness seat at the first Scottish Parliament election and holding it at every one thereafter. He combines his mother’s campaigning skills with his father’s keen mind and attention to detail. The SNP MSP group may at times have got some of those circumstances wrong by, for example, not accepting a conscience vote on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, but clearly there has to be agreement among the group about what is a conscience matter and what is not. Moral and ethical dilemmas are – but road widening isn’t.
What is really at issue here is not the right to express an opinion, nor to seek conscience or constituency interest special voting dispensations. Fergus simply has a general but increasingly deep-rooted dislike of the direction of the party and how that direction is expressed in policy and legislative terms, even though the party itself has indicated, by a sizeable majority, that it approves of such progress.
Such actions are bad enough in any party. In a party of independence, where the politics of governing are bound up with the politics of moving on from the current state we are in, they are even more difficult to thole given that they threaten that core purpose and are shamelessly used by our opponents to do just that.
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